Comments for The Gifts and Perils of Rick Santorum at http://www.thecatholicthing.org , comment 1 to 6 out of 6 comments http://www.thecatholicthing.org Wed, 22 May 2013 09:14:47 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2011/santorum-pro-life-teacher.html#comment-7320 Wow, Santorum gets beat up all the time by my fellow conservative pro-lifers. Give me a break! Jesus and Mary were the only perfect ones around. Don't expect perfection. Christ has not returned yet, so don't expect a perfect system. Santorum has to work within the system as it is. This is reality. You who attack him are living in fantasy land. Reality is that he must work within an imperfect political party and system to have any effectivness at all. If the party needs something, sometimes you have go against your better judgement. If you go against the party you will not get any legislation through. It is a give and take process. If he made a mistake by doing so, and you still hold that against him, you are never going to find the perfect candidate. Even the Holy Father udnerstands this concept. He does not change everything to his liking over night. You can only push so far, so fast. Some of this is just prudential judgement, which can be flawed. We all do the best we can, but we all make bad choices at times. Even if a president were to come into office and pass a bill that would outlaw abortion, do you think that would be the end of the story? If you do you live in a dream world. Even Mother Teresa once said that you can out law abortion, but unitl you change the hearts and minds of people you will still have abortion. Wake up people! Your not in Ozz anymore. - taad Wed, 06 Jul 2011 06:17:54 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2011/santorum-pro-life-teacher.html#comment-7319 I'm with Donal Mohoney. You can spin his Spector endorsement in only one of two ways: either he really believed that pro-abortion Spector was better than pro-life Toomey, or he lacked the political courage to endorse Toomey over his Republican colleague. It doesn't matter which is true; in either case, Santorum has proven himself untrustworthy. Fool me once, shame on Rick Santorum; fool me twice, shame on me. - Howard Wed, 06 Jul 2011 05:00:37 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2011/santorum-pro-life-teacher.html#comment-7309 I was once an admirer of Rick Santorum. But then he campaigned for Arlen Spector in a Republican primary against a pro-life candidate. Spector won. I will never vote for Rick Santorum. - Donal Mahoney Tue, 05 Jul 2011 08:46:14 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2011/santorum-pro-life-teacher.html#comment-7127 No one can hold a candle to Santorum on the life issue - he walks the walk - and the critic in the pro-life movement would have done well to approach Santorum behind the scenes and help him to avoid any rhetorical pitfalls. Otherwise - pro-life 'critics' will prove themselves unworthy of leaders like Santorum. In this case - the critic seems to have missed his opportunity... Hopefully - others will be wiser - as the serpent. - Chris in Maryland Tue, 21 Jun 2011 05:13:31 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2011/santorum-pro-life-teacher.html#comment-7126 Where I come from, "belief" denotes unconditional assent to a proposition; unlike inference, which depends on the truth of its premises, it is categorical, not conditional. For example, that there is an infinite series of numbers is a belief; that no square number is twice another is an inference. An opinion can express varying degrees of probability, but to believe means to have no doubt. - Michael Paterson-Seymour Tue, 21 Jun 2011 05:07:11 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2011/santorum-pro-life-teacher.html#comment-7125 Americans are a pragmatic people, Dr. Arkes, as you well know. NY and CA had legalized abortion before Roe and once the concerted protest against Humanae Vitae's condemnation of abortion in 1968, abortion was a go in order to back up failed contraceptions. We have had over 50 million abortions in this Country since Roe. The subject has become a non-issue. Now God is punishing us with same-sex "marriage". It will all be academic when God crushes us with the Great Chastisement promised at Akita in 1973. Very few are "mending their ways". P.S. I don't believe Santorum's slip was a faux pas-he should have known it was coming. - Manfred Tue, 21 Jun 2011 00:49:17 +0100